Maike & Griffin

Schedule

Welcome brunch - Saturday, April 6, 2024

All wedding guests are invited to a casual welcome brunch from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 6. The brunch will be hosted at the River Chase neighborhood clubhouse:

436 River Chase Way, New Braunfels, TX 78132

Time Event
10 a.m. to noon Welcome brunch

Wedding - Sunday, April 7, 2024

Both the ceremony & reception will take place at Gruene Estate:

1030 River Road, New Braunfels, TX, 78130

Our wedding ceremony will begin promptly at 5 p.m. Please arrive early to enjoy a string quartet performance. The suggested dress code is semi-formal.

Time Event
4:45 to 5 p.m. String quartet performance
5 to 6 p.m. Ceremony
6 to 7:30 p.m. Dinner and drinks
7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Reception

Eclipse - Monday, April 8, 2024

Stay an extra day to see a total solar eclipse! You will need to drive at least 20 minutes northwest of New Braunfels to reach the path of totality. Eclipse glasses will be provided as wedding favors. We encourage you to make a plan for your eclipse viewing in advance—see the FAQ section for more information.

We are also hosting an optional eclipse watch party at a small winery northwest of New Braunfels! Please see the FAQ section for details and to RSVP.

Time Event
1:35 p.m. Total solar eclipse


Registry

Thank you so much for helping us build our life together! Our registry can be accessed through MyRegistry at this link.

Please ship your gifts to the following address, which will send items safely to the Stanford package center. The “-gdglenn” after Griffin’s name is important:

Griffin Glenn - gdglenn
459 Lagunita Drive
c/o Tresidder Package Center
Stanford, CA 94305

If you would like to contribute cash but don’t want to pay the transaction fees charged by MyRegistry (several dollars flat fee plus 2.5% of the total), you’re welcome to use Venmo (username: @GriffinDGlenn) or to mail us a check! Please make it out to “Griffin Glenn” and mail it to:

Griffin Glenn
121 Campus Drive
Apt. 1303A
Stanford, CA 94305

Thank you so much! :)


FAQ

General FAQ

  • New Braunfels is approximately equidistant from Austin (~50 minutes) and San Antonio (~40 minutes), so you can fly to either city.

  • New Braunfels has lots of nice restaurants and points of interest as well as a variety of lodging options. Some of the major hotels are already sold out, but many still have vacancies. There are also local boutique hotels and hundreds of Airbnbs at a wide range of price points.

  • The Texas Hill Country is a great place to visit, especially in April when the weather is temperate and wildflowers are at their peak.

    • New Braunfels: experience the tremendous waterpark Schlitterbahn, enjoy Landa Park and the Comal springs, and explore downtown New Braunfels–don’t miss Krause’s beer hall or the Saturday morning farmer’s market. There’s also the nearby Gruene (“green”) historic district, boasting Texas’ oldest continually operating dance hall!

    • San Antonio: visit the River Walk, remember the Alamo, and check out great museums like the Doseum (kids), the Witte (natural history), and the McNay (art).

    • Austin: visit the Blanton Museum of Art and the Harry Ransom Center on the UT Austin campus (hook ’em), take a walk, swim, or kayak at Zilker Park and the Barton Springs Pool, and check out the beautiful Austin Central Library. Between Austin and New Braunfels, get a taste of authentic Texas BBQ at the Salt Lick in Driftwood, TX.

  • If you would like to attend a church service during your time in New Braunfels, the Morrison family recommends Sozo Church, which meets at San Marcos Academy just north of New Braunfels in San Marcos, TX on Sundays at 10 a.m.

Eclipse FAQ

We encourage you to make a plan for your eclipse viewing in advance.

  • The solar eclipse will occur on Monday, April 8, beginning around 12:15 p.m. and reaching totality around 1:35 p.m. (depending on your viewing location).

  • You will need to drive at least 20 minutes northwest of New Braunfels to reach the path of totality; the closer you are to the center of the path, the longer the moon will fully cover the sun.

  • We are providing ISO 12312-2 certified eclipse viewing glasses as favors for wedding guests, allowing you to look directly at the sun when it is not fully eclipsed by the moon (you can remove glasses during totality).

  • Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to travel to Texas from all over the country for this event, so anticipate large crowds, disruptions to cell service, and substantial traffic delays, particularly in the center of the path of totality.

  • The Texas Parks and Wildlife website has some helpful information if you’re interested in watching the eclipse from a state park (you will need to reserve your entry on March 8 at 8 a.m. CT), and the Great American Eclipse page for Texas provides useful general information and some collected links for eclipse events throughout Texas.

Optional eclipse watch party (RSVP required)

We will be hosting a private eclipse watch party on Monday, April 8 at a small winery in Spring Branch, TX, about 30 miles (45 minutes) northwest of New Braunfels. The cost will be $45 per person for charcuterie plus a tasting of 6 wines, or $10 for non-drinkers. Space is limited, so please RSVP soon if you would like to join us!

If you would like to join the eclipse watch party, please RSVP by March 1 at this link. Note that this RSVP is separate from the wedding RSVP form!

Eclipse watch party schedule

Time Event
11:30 a.m. Guests arrive
12:00 p.m. Wine tasting begins
12:15 p.m. Eclipse begins
1:35 to 1:38 p.m. Totality!


Story

We met through the Dean’s Scholar’s Honors Program (DS) at the University of Texas at Austin, where Griffin studied Physics and Plan II Honors (class of 2019) and Maike studied Math (class of 2020).

We were both very involved with DS and became close friends through leadership in the program.

By the time Griffin graduated, we were best friends.

When Griffin started a PhD program in Applied Physics at Stanford University, we kept in close contact. After Maike graduated from UT in 2020, she too began a PhD program at Stanford—hers in Biology. We were “randomly assigned” as next door neighbors in graduate housing and spent nearly every waking moment together during fall 2020, as we weathered the pandemic and worked from home together in California.

As we spent the 2020 winter break apart, we realized we missed each other in a way different from how we missed other dear friends. We broached the topic in January 2021 and, after much discussion, Maike gave Griffin a type-written letter during a break from a beautiful coastal bike ride. “I think we’ll make a great team.”

Our lifestyles and priorities grew even more aligned over the subsequent three years of dating. Maike started skiing and Griffin started running. Maike has learned physics, and Griffin biology. Griffin now eats leftovers for lunch instead of sandwiches, and Maike has rediscovered pleasure reading. We’ve cooked countless meals together, traveled around the world, and put down roots in a wonderful church and graduate student community at Stanford. We have spent long months apart and short months together. It has been a great joy to intertwine our lives.

In August 2023, while on a hike in the nearby Santa Cruz mountains with Maike’s mom and roommate, Griffin pulled Maike away from the group, handed Maike a type-written note, fished a ring box out of the hiking pack, and got down on one knee. “We make a great team. Let’s make it official?”